➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

Uh oh

Big rubber broken egg.

 

[Pennys Mama]

Just set 120 quail eggs in my Hovabator AND 16 pullet eggs & 17 quail eggs in my "free" Farm Innovators Bator....
Still have 9 chicken eggs & 8 guinea eggs in my GoodMother Bator, they hatch in 7 days......

 

[CoturnixComplex]

@CoturnixComplex can you help with color? What should this hen be bred with to get same color?

I called those "dilute pharaoh" when I got them in a hatch randomly. No idea what they are genetically, but they came from a grau-fee type hen. They look almost like the "silver pharaoh" types (that you had some of too, Sara) but they're a shade closer to normal pharaohs. I sold mine but I will try and dig up an old photo.

I agree that I would keep a son and breed him back to her. - even if he doesn't appear to be the same color off the bat. If this is the same hen @Matieus27 wants to eliminate the tuxedo patterning from, just be sure to only keep solid-colored offspring to breed back. You will get rid of it eventually.

There is a small chance that it's caused by one of the dilution genes I have a description but no photos of, and some of those are lethal when a chick inherits two copies, so if you're getting low hatch rates or weak chicks from the mother:son pairing that could be an explanation.

 

[Matieus27]

I called those "dilute pharaoh" when I got them in a hatch randomly. No idea what they are genetically, but they came from a grau-fee type hen. They look almost like the "silver pharaoh" types (that you had some of too, Sara) but they're a shade closer to normal pharaohs. I sold mine but I will try and dig up an old photo.

I agree that I would keep a son and breed him back to her. - even if he doesn't appear to be the same color off the bat. If this is the same hen @Matieus27 wants to eliminate the tuxedo patterning from, just be sure to only keep solid-colored offspring to breed back. You will get rid of it eventually.

There is a small chance that it's caused by one of the dilution genes I have a description but no photos of, and some of those are lethal when a chick inherits two copies, so if you're getting low hatch rates or weak chicks from the mother:son pairing that could be an explanation.

This is what I was looking for. Thank You!

 

[Matieus27]

WAKE UP!!!! Time to get to work building those cages we got a lot of work to do if we are going to get 2020 eggs hatched we need a lot more cages better get building now

 

[Nabiki]

WAKE UP!!!! Time to get to work building those cages we got a lot of work to do if we are going to get 2020 eggs hatched we need a lot more cages better get building now

I'm doing my share! I have 27 button eggs going into lockdown on Friday, and 62 coturnix going into lockdown on the 21st.

Now I just have to figure out how to get one of my quail off of the roof...

 

[Kiki]

WAKE UP!!!! Time to get to work building those cages we got a lot of work to do if we are going to get 2020 eggs hatched we need a lot more cages better get building now

It's too cold outside.

 

[Kiki]

I'm doing my share! I have 27 button eggs going into lockdown on Friday, and 62 coturnix going into lockdown on the 21st.
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Now I just have to figure out how to get one of my quail off of the roof... View attachment 1999519

Oh boy.
What's the dummies doing up there?

 

[Nabiki]

Oh boy.
What's the dummies doing up there?

I was feeding them and she somehow managed to flush out of the opening that I was standing in front of, and flew all the way up to the roof of my house. I hope she comes down on her own when it gets light out. I don't have a ladder.

Edit: It's the pretty dark red one that you want.

 

[Matieus27]

I counted all the eggs I’ve collected over the past week and a half and I have 108 eggs